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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. All right, then
(00:37):
I'm gonna let you finish your point because you had
originally called in about a mailman.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, it doesn't seem important anymore, but at but you
know what, at the same time, I'm glad the guy
finally established that I had a yacht. So do you
admit it?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, maybe not Okay, you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Don't even have any Well, you don't even have it anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, I said I had a yacht.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That was Yeah, but it's it's a moot point at
this at this point in the process. Fair, it's a
non existent moat.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well it still exists. Well, you don't have to We're
going to argue on something else. No, I don't go ahead.
So I was calling in on the mail thing because
I thought it was a little funny story that you
would have appreciated when I was a kid, I was
probably about eighteen years older, so bright, about six foot tall,
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and I used to mow the lawn for a mail carrier.
He would use his personal vehicle to go out and
do the mail, and so I would mow his lawn
free of charge because he was an elderly man, and I,
you know, I wanted to, you know, help him out,
and I would go in just to let him know
I was done. But when I would walk into his house,
(02:07):
it was like a hoarder's dream. You'd have to walk
down these little aisles for me to go to the
bathroom or something like that. And he had just stacks
of mail up to my waist, magazines, mail letters, whatever
that he just never delivered. And he would take him home.
(02:27):
That was the reason why I called in. I thought it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But there's nothing wrong with that. Don't worry that that's
a bad call. Kent with Little Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir,
hold on, I got another are you did you put
me on speakerphone.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Me?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, okay, all right, hold on, let me take Travis's
call real quick. Travis, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just
come in mid conversation physical therapy. But I was going
to define a yacht for you, Okay, I'd say little
yacht thirty two feet the Bertram MAPI that came out
back in the seventies. To the commoner, that would look
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like a yacht. But I would not classify that as
a yacht, I'd say you have to get started getting
the forties because you have a full sized state room
in livable quarters. That thirty two foot boat gets real tight,
real quick.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Do you have a boat.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I do?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What do you have?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's a Boston Whaler two seventy dauntless.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Where do you keep it?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's kept up here on Lake Ray, Hubbard, but I'm
fixing to move it down to the coast where so well,
if you're going to run out of the Galvesty yacht
basin there, this boat would be the dream boat for you.
And let me tell you why. I've run this boat
from South Florida and up in New Hampshire. I didn't
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run it from there to there, but I lived in
South Florida and I lived in New Hampson. I've had
this boat in really rough condition, six to eight foot
beam seas crossing from you know, going from West Palm
up to Boca. And it's a center console and it's
a hybrid. And the reason why there's such a perfect
boat for galveson Bay is because it whips up so quick.
You could run fifty miles off shore, catch snapper out
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of this boat, or be up in the bay in
skinny water, you know a foot and a half because
it's got a real shallow draft catching trout, redfish, and flounder.
It's got a dive door, troll, the motor powerpole, it's
got twenty two hundred merks radar. It's fantastic, loaded to
the gills.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How much you want for it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'll do one eighty just for you.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm not in the market, and I'm just curious. What
did you give for it?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I got one eighty four for it?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, what did you give for it?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And I got it paid one eighty four and I
got a hell of a deal.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
On can't What do you think.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
To see the boat?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
If I buy a boat. I got to buy it
from Little Yacht Sales because he's my boat expert. But
I was just curious what you thought.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'll look he can. He can take a fee off it.
If you get it for one, I'll let him take
his cut. You know, the two happiest days that you
have being a boat, you sell it?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Why are you getting rid of it?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's right? Well, for what I want to do, it's
it's not practical anymore. It was perfect for for South Florida.
It was perfect for New Hampshire. But I'm a I'm
a marsh fisherman, and uh, it's just you know, it's
just a little I've got it on. It's like the
Catfish Cadillac right now, it's up here on late Ray Hubbard.
(05:53):
I look like an idiot, you know, I'm driving around
this this really fancy boat that's made for the coast,
the you know, the ocean, and it's just not It
just don't look good.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Do you think they look down on you?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't. I don't know. Maybe they they probably think
it's a really fine looking boat.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Do they put their pinky finger out when they're drinking
their Miller High Life as you go by, as their
way of saying, oh, mister fancy pants.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty fancy. It's pretty fancy.
But like I said, you can run fifty miles off
shore and if a storm kicks up, I mean it's
it's great. It's a battle wagon and it's not a
full size off shore boat. So for somebody that's new
to boats, it's a it's a great boat. This boat,
brand new, runs three hundred and twenty five thousand. It's
a it's a twenty twenty that I have babied, I've
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had an indoor storage. I've owned a lot of boats.
I grew up around boats. I was driving boats when
I was six years old, putting them on an off
trailer and docking them. What do you do for a living,
So I'm gonna stay at.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Home, Dath?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What does mama do?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
She works in telecommunications?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, she doesn't worked there. She's like a senior vice president.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
She's pretty high up there. Yeah, yeah, she's pretty high
up there.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She has sugar Mama.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
What did you do before you were stay at home Dad?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I did respiratory medical equipment sales and Katie and sugar Land.
And before that, I had a food truck, which you
actually have me on two segments of your show.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Was it Center Court?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What was it called.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Breakfast Burritos? Anonymous? I had it there at Inversion Coffee House.
Actually I met Avy back in the day before he
was a you know, super big shot, and he hooked
me up with with some coffee equipment when we did
off site gigs. But they're at Inversion. His only deal
with me was just don't sell coffee. And I was like,
(07:47):
all right, you got it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Man ozvy Katz has done. I am so proud of him.
He has done so incredibly well. And he's done it
by being very good at what he does. It's incredible coffee,
by being Houston focused, by being extraordinarily charitable philanthropy. He
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does more for Camp Hope. He says he does as
much for Camp Hope. He's in the Russell Ebara category
of how much he does for Camp Hope. It's incredible
what he has done at Cats Coffee. I mean, I'm
so proud that hold on Ken. I got a boat question.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
For you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The Michael Berry Show. If you're a Toto fan, they
are heavily featured in the Yacht Rock Professional. Wayne writes
boat versus yacht tzar. Boat manufacturers have corrupted the term
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yacht by listing it as a yacht. The terms center console,
cabin cruiser, also motor yacht. Those are typical flush deck
or multi deck with a very large stateroom. I've been
around boats since I was ten years old, captain many
of them, all the way up to eighty feet. I
don't think of anything less than fifty foot as a yacht,
only because I'm old school. The last boat we had
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was a sixty foot sport fish. Most people would consider
it a yacht, but because it was a sport fishing
convertible configuration, I don't ever think of it that way.
We're decent boats, but they were very middle of the
road as far as quality wise. Ramon, do you have
anything to say on this. I'm not a boat expert.
It's like guns or cars, you can get outside of
the problem is we got listeners that have forgotten more
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about this than I would ever learn with two years
of intense study. And I'm very well aware of that,
and they love to point out when you get something wrong.
But from my very limited knowledge, my own personal opinion
is unless you have a state room, unless you can
go under and take a nap in the air conditioning
and pee, then it's not a yacht. Well I can
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pee on any boat too, mister tough guy. But you
know what I'm saying. You get the point right. Let
me see something here. Well, now I've managed to activate
the entire Bury boat Brigade. Everybody out there with the
boat interest Kent, I have a question for you, Yes,
(10:20):
Sir Kent at Little Yachtsales dot com. So we rented
a boat, Ramon I haven't told you this in Maui
because my boys are never happier than we are. When
we were out on a boat, and I haven't bought
a boat because their expensive is held to maintain like
a horse. But we rented a boat while we're out
there with a captain, and we went out to see
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this beautiful reef that is where they did Captain nemo.
And so I sent an email to Kent at Little
Yachtsales dot com and I said, Hey, this is the
boat we've got. It's a thirty five foot three point
fifty realm Boston Whaler. And I know that Boston Whaler
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makes it cost a lot more than perhaps would be
absolutely necessary because it's kind of a Rolls Royce brand,
and and anyway, so he's I said, how much does
that boat? How much would this boat be new? And
you know, you're not a boat guy. A million dollar boat?
And I thought, my god, man, do you know what
Like you look at a million dollar house, you go
you got a lot of stuff there. You look at
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a million dollar boat, you go, well, well this is
this is a nice boat. It's not Is it just
a boat? It's not. It's not. Tilman's yacht or anything.
But anyway, Kent, what is the status of the boat
business right now? You and I were emailing about how
crazy it got during COVID, and I remember reading I
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have a buddy named Lance Parks. He used to run
the Galveston Yacht basin. Do you know Lance?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I do know Lance. I know it's sadly too.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, Well, Lance and I would email a lot during COVID,
and he sent me a Boat Trader article in the
summer of twenty and it said it was the highest
boat sails in American history that month. And then they
broke it the next month. And you said that sales
were up. You wrote it to me in an email
a couple of days ago that sales prices were up.
(12:18):
I may get you wrong fifty percent during that period
of time, So a six hundred thousand dollars boat would
be a nine hundred thousand dollars voat. I may be
wrong on that, so correct me. But where are we
in pricing and volume of boat sails right now?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Back in COVID, it wasn't that they had gone up
any highers, just the demand was very high, so thinks
were selling at retail with very little discount now that's
slowed down some, which was expected. And the biggest problem
is the inflation has caused cost for new boats to
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go up quite a bit. So boats have had a
pretty big increase in the life last three years of
about ten percent a year, when normally they're about three
percent a year. But everything has gone up because of inflation.
I mean, you know, an F two to fifty truck
it's one hundred thousand dollars now as well. So, but
the state of the market's very good. We're busy, and
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we're fortunate. We're here in Houston where we have a
year round season where it's not cold too terribly often,
and so people can vote year round here, which is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Who's that coming and going sorry, I'm in one of.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
My offices and the guys are actually working here.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh okay, So who is who is buying boats today
that didn't buy boats before? Because I know that like
with vacation properties. They saw this in Colorado, they saw
this in Hawaii during COVID people were buying properties that
never would have because they in the past, they would
have gone to the south of France or they would
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have gone off the coast. Degrees and now because they
couldn't travel well, they bought houses in Aspen and Pebble Beach.
And who's buying boats now that didn't buy boats ten
years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers,
people under the age of forty, whereas before it was
been the majority has been baby boomers have been the
majority of the buyers. But now that that market's gotten
better with the younger crowd.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating
or are they first time buyers.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
We see a lot of people that have grown up
boating that eventually do buy their own boat, but some
of them are new boaters. And the one thing about
COVID is we thought we were going to have all
these boats on the market, you know, after COVID, after
everything wore off, But in reality we did not see that.
(14:53):
I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle
and they kept the boat, or they actually got more
involved and bought something else.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come
in and buy a boat that big, because that's not
a to captain a boat like that if you have
no boating experience seems to me like that's a pretty
big undertakings.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It is, but it's like learning anything, once you learn,
and it's not very difficult, and usually we try to
help people get some captain and instruction if they need it,
if they're brand new, for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know, I guess my question would be, I didn't
grow up in a boating culture. My dad had a
boat when I was young, but he had to sell
it when he built our house. It was just a
little boat. He and his brother owned it together. And
bass fishing was big in Orange, So if you went
out on somebody's boat, you go out on a little boat,
little john boat, or just a little bass boat. But
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then I came to Houston, and you know, you would
get invited with people to this what we would have
called a yacht because it did have a state room
and it was a you know, thirty forty thirty five
forty foot foot vote. But it strikes me that you
either everybody I knew either grew up around voting or
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or never did it at all. And so I guess
I'm interested in who these people are who just decide,
never having been into voting culture, I'm gonna buy a
boat captain some ting wong. Well, something must be right.
You are listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
She looks looking out you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So this song comes out. This is eighty two eighty three.
It's a good I would have been in six or seven,
eighty two or eighty three. This song comes out. And
I remember hearing this on Casey's EB. Ninety five out
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of Bama, the top forty. It was because it was
top forty song. At that point you didn't, you know,
old songs you got to put into you know, a genre.
But at the time it's the top song. It's just
come out that sweets. And I guess because of the subject,
I mean, the sound, the references. I thought this song,
I thought they brought it back as an oldie, like
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it felt like something that you know, it was Sinatra,
early Sinatra era. It was a new song that had
an old feel to it because it wasn't over produced.
Maybe this can turn it up, turned up.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We had.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Just like staying lately sure.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Seeing a way to key log.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He's looking at you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I mean when you quote to e Largo in Casablanca
in a song with that kind of raspy voice and
you've got this over the top cheesy female backers past
purpose should have Jenny Fricky do the background. But another day,
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all right, see hint.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yep sair.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So the voting business today right now, if you were
to tell me where that's going to be a year
from now, obviously twenty twenty we had this absolute boom.
May not see that again in our lifetime, right I
doubt it what you said that you expected at the
end of COVID that those properties, that those boats would
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go on the market, and it didn't happen. So people
liked the voting lifestyle. But at some point it strikes
me that you've affected the inventory in production, unless they're
just not making as many boats, because there's It just
strikes me that there's no way that all of a
sudden you had all these new boats bought and then
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at some point those boats have to go back out
on the market to compete against the new boats. I'll
give you an example. So Tesla right now has a
real problem on their hands because for the last two
years they haven't sold enough cars and I think they're
making something like fifty more cars than they're selling. So
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elon guts the market cuts the price slashes, the price
and tries to put a lot of other people out
of business, which he did. But the problem with that
is the used tesla market was destroyed. So there are
a lot of people that had a five year old
Tesla that can't get anything for that tesla because at
some point the supply and demand have to line up.
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And when you when you make when demand goes massive
overnight and the supply doesn't change, at some point, there
has to be a true up, right, yes, So so
do you foresee that happening.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite
a bit of a slowdown in the boat market in
just about every field you know, power sail, small boats,
large boats. But now the demand is starting to come
back because the supply is starting to dwindle some. And
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the biggest issue is you know areas that you know, Fortunately,
where we are there's plenty of slips and there's plenty
of places to keep a boat large, you know, yacht
club style marinas, but in other parts of the country,
like Florida, there's huge shortages of slips. So people are
trying to buy a boat. Came and you know some
places fine place to put it, but I think a
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year from now the demand will actually be higher. We've
been busy since the election and had the best November
and December we've had in probably five years.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What does that mean? How many boats do you sell
in November December to say that, Well, we.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Usually would do about one hundred and seventy five boats
a year, and we did about twenty in November and
December each combined ten boats a month.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And you normally do how many.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We've done about one hundred and seventy five, but in
twenty twenty four we were down quite a bit, probably
around one hundred, so it was quite a bit of
a drop thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Just what's the top month for boat sails? April and
May because it's starting to get warm and people starting
to think about going out on the boat.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
It is, but we've been as busy because of the
season here. Although it's pretty cold right now, you know,
in December it can be as nice as May or
June sometimes, so you know, we we can be as
busy in December.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
As we are in June.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Where do you keep your boats?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
We're well, it got two offices, one at south Shore
Harbor in Leake City and one at Waterford Harbor in Kema,
which they're only a mile apart.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I used to do that boat club, Carefree boat Club,
and they were Yes, I think they were at south
Shore Harbor.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I think they are at south Shore.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Still.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That was kind of a good for a guy like
me that just wanted a basic little boat and take
my kids out for the weekend. I think it was
four hundred bucks a month. That was a great deal
for me.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yes, that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I wasn't in the yacht business, although I did go
get my captain's training from the owner there. He was
a show sponsor. But that was I did it for
several years. I thought that was you know, you're in
and out. You didn't if you weren't, you know, because
to buy a boat's a kind of a big commitment.
But to see how much we were going to use it,
I thought that was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I think those those clubs, care Free and Freedom both
we are both great. They introduce a lot of people
into the market, and of course a lot of those
people do eventually want to buy something and own it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Well, I'm lazy keeping down in the water. If I
if I if I know that at the end of
a day out with my kids, I've got to come
back and clean the boat. That I think about that
the whole It kind of takes a little bit of
the of the fun off for me. So are all
of those marinas booked up right now?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
There's vacancies. And I can tell you there's no lazier
boater than me.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I've got to you just call a.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Fellow and have him come clean the boat afterwards, just
write a check and be happy and go home.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So we we, uh, we've leased a house over the
years at Pirates, and so we would. I would always
lease a boat from from Lance Parks and then just
go over to Waterman's uh Marina and eat and come back,
just to have somewhere to go, right. It's like the
guys on the motorcycle or the airplane's going somewhere to go,
and you they they haven't had a slip available in
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I bet you ten years. It's not a big marina.
But that was kind of my you know, my barometer
of there's not a lot of space for boats. Kent,
thank you, buddy, that Kent. Little Licht Sales dot Com.
Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut enjoyed Bizaar
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of Talk Radio.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
To Little River, remember this and when we have a
custom that they cut for us. Oh here here we
turned up.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Turn up.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Everybody and you' listening to the Michael Berry Show and reminiscy.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, they're Australian. They surprised us with that. Were you
on the show yet? I think that was just me
and Chad Backer. You know you were because we had
just gone on in Nashville when they live in Nashville.
Ken Paxton, along with the state Republican Party, has launched
a tour across the state to go into the state
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districts for the state representatives who want Democrat committee chairman.
We've got a battle for who's going to be the
Speaker of the House. Well, Drunk Dad was driven from
office after they spent millions. The lobbyists spent millions. Drunk
daid had fought against everything we want as the base
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and he put Democrats in committee chairmanships. So drunk Date
is out. After almost losing his seat, they had to
have Democrats come over over a thousand Democrats to vote
in the Republican primary for the first time ever to
help him win by a couple hundred votes. He lost
two of the three counties that make up that State
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Rep district. I know I'm from that county. I'm from
Orange and he's Jefferson County and there's Jasper County. So
Ken Paxton's going out and saying to voters, hey, guys,
the choice of the speaker. Remember, the Texas State House
only meets every other year. It's a biennial session every
two years. So immediately after the election, you begin in
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the spring a legislative session, and that's one hundred and
fifty days. That's when all the bills will be written.
And the choice of who the speaker is is everything,
because that's who appoints the committee chairman. That's who puts
things on calendars, whether they're ever voted on it or not.
Appropriations everything, sun setting bills, all of it. And so
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if you get Dustin Burrows in there, who was drunk
Daid's number two, I mean, you would think the fact
that drunk Dade had to step down with all this
money and was defeated in the first round of the
primary in his own district by a candidate with no money,
you would think Donald Trump got involved to defeat a
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Republican Speaker of the House in Texas. Now, how bad
do you think he had to be for the President
of the United States to get involved in his state
rep race in Southeast Texas. That's how bad he is.
Mind you, our whole state held hostage by the lobbyist
in Austin who had this guy, and they want some
Democrats to be committee chairman, so get They don't want
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your agenda to be passed, so they control some of
the Republicans. So he got one hundred and fifty members
who meet one hundred and fifty days every other year. Well,
if we don't get our speaker, who the majority of
the base wants, then you're gonna have Dustin Burroughs, his
planet's attorney out of Lubbock, whose own district is pissed
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at him right now. You're gonna end up with him,
and he's gonna put Democrat party chairman, I mean Democrat
committee chairman. And we know this is going to happen.
So you got this guy, David Cook, and he's not perfect.
Let's be clear on that. He's not perfect, but he's
a much better choice. So you got drunk Dad's minion,
Dustin Burroughs so Ken Paxton is traveling the state with
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a state party chairman and a lot of the grassroots
folks that help win elections because he's Republican state reps.
You got a guy named Jered Patterson out of Frisco, Texas.
He's a Republican, and he says that he is supporting
Dustin Burroughs, which is the mini me for drunk Dad,
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Justin Burroughs. Dustin Burroughs is the poor man's drunk Day.
And he says he's supporting Chairman Boroughs because he believes
that every single member of the House is an elected
representative of the people and that their voice deserves to
be heard. Do you see what he's saying. He's saying,
(29:20):
we're going to team up with the Democrats to get
the majority of the votes. Remember, we've got eighty eight
Republicans and sixty two Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Because you worked hard to send Republicans to the House
and you beat the Democrats, you got seventy six or more.
He got eighty eight. Sixty two of the eighty eight
(29:44):
support David Cook, but twenty six are bought and paid
for out of Austin and they go, Hey, if we
take our twenty six and put it with the sixty
two Democrats, we'll have the majority. Now, we'll only have
fewer than a third of the Republicans, so we won't
have the majority of Republicans, but we'll take us few Republicans,
(30:08):
team up with the other side that can't get to
fifty percent, and between the two of us, we'll share
power with the Democrats. As Republicans are doing this, this
is not what their base wants, and he's well, we
think the Democrats should have some choice in the speaker too.
That's not how it worked in Congress when the Democrats.
(30:30):
Democrats had controlled, Nancy Pelosi was the speaker and they
jammed things down our throat. In the state of Texas,
when Democrats controlled, they controlled. We've got Republicans in control,
and then this is happening, the story from nbc DFW.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Two factions within the Republican Party have been fighting for
power over the last year, and a key battle will
be over who becomes this Speaker of the House. Inside
the building, it's arguably the third most powerful position in
the state. Recently, he's sat atop a Republican led but
bipartisan coalition with Democrats. That's something this group in Terren
(31:14):
County Monday aims to change.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Until the Texas House is fixed, everything else is a
band aid.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Local and state parties are organizing bus tours down to
Austin next week to try to pressure Republican House members
to back Mansfield Lawmaker David Cook as Speaker of the House.
He's the Republican caucus's choice, and has pledged to scrap
the bipartisan coalition.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
From the Speaker from the lobby.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
In a rare public appearance since he defeated an impeachment attempt.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is putting his shoulder into the effort.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Whatever they do is going to be public, and it's
going to be transparent, and the voters then will ultimately
decide what happens, not me.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
The other faction is supporting Lubbick Republican Dustin Burroughs, arguing
Democratic chairs should be put up to a vote in
the one hundred and fifty member Chamber.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Chairman Burroughs believes that every single member of the House
is an elected representative the people and that their voice
deserves to be heard.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Many of them supported incumbent Speaker Dade Feelin, who chose
not to seek the position again after a bruising campaign season.
They see themselves as defending the state constitution and a
Texas House that's a check on other statewide powers across Texas.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Our founders designed our systems to be independent from each
other the chambers, so if one chamber controls the other,
that's not the way it was intended to work.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
So that vote for speaker happens next Tuesday, the first
day of the legislative session.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Down in Austin. You wonder why we win elections but
lose policy, because we've got people who claim to be
Republicans when they come home to their district. This happens
in Congress, it happens in the House representatives. Oh, they
show up and they love the Lord and Amica are
cunning our veterans and send me back. And then they
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get up there and they team up with the Democrats
and get drunk with a lobbyists and screw you over.
That's paraphrasing of Molly Ivans quote Tramon
It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. All right, then
(00:37):
I'm gonna let you finish your point because you had
originally called in about a mailman.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, it doesn't seem important anymore, but at but you
know what, at the same time, I'm glad the guy
finally established that I had a yacht. So do you
admit it?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, maybe not Okay, you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Don't even have any Well, you don't even have it anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
No, I said I had a yacht.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That was Yeah, but it's it's a moot point at
this at this point in the process. Fair, it's a
non existent moat.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well it still exists. Well, you don't have to We're
going to argue on something else. No, I don't go ahead.
So I was calling in on the mail thing because
I thought it was a little funny story that you
would have appreciated when I was a kid, I was
probably about eighteen years older, so bright, about six foot tall,
(01:44):
and I used to mow the lawn for a mail carrier.
He would use his personal vehicle to go out and
do the mail, and so I would mow his lawn
free of charge because he was an elderly man, and I,
you know, I wanted to, you know, help him out,
and I would go in just to let him know
I was done. But when I would walk into his house,
(02:07):
it was like a hoarder's dream. You'd have to walk
down these little aisles for me to go to the
bathroom or something like that. And he had just stacks
of mail up to my waist, magazines, mail letters, whatever
that he just never delivered. And he would take him home.
(02:27):
That was the reason why I called in. I thought it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
But there's nothing wrong with that. Don't worry that that's
a bad call. Kent with Little Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir,
hold on, I got another are you did you put
me on speakerphone.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Me?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, okay, all right, hold on, let me take Travis's
call real quick. Travis, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just
come in mid conversation physical therapy. But I was going
to define a yacht for you, Okay, I'd say little
yacht thirty two feet the Bertram MAPI that came out
back in the seventies. To the commoner, that would look
(03:14):
like a yacht. But I would not classify that as
a yacht, I'd say you have to get started getting
the forties because you have a full sized state room
in livable quarters. That thirty two foot boat gets real tight,
real quick.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Do you have a boat.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I do?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What do you have?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's a Boston Whaler two seventy dauntless.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Where do you keep it?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's kept up here on Lake Ray, Hubbard, but I'm
fixing to move it down to the coast where so well,
if you're going to run out of the Galvesty yacht
basin there, this boat would be the dream boat for you.
And let me tell you why. I've run this boat
from South Florida and up in New Hampshire. I didn't
(04:04):
run it from there to there, but I lived in
South Florida and I lived in New Hampson. I've had
this boat in really rough condition, six to eight foot
beam seas crossing from you know, going from West Palm
up to Boca. And it's a center console and it's
a hybrid. And the reason why there's such a perfect
boat for galveson Bay is because it whips up so quick.
You could run fifty miles off shore, catch snapper out
(04:26):
of this boat, or be up in the bay in
skinny water, you know a foot and a half because
it's got a real shallow draft catching trout, redfish, and flounder.
It's got a dive door, troll, the motor powerpole, it's
got twenty two hundred merks radar. It's fantastic, loaded to
the gills.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
How much you want for it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'll do one eighty just for you.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'm not in the market, and I'm just curious. What
did you give for it?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I got one eighty four for it?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, what did you give for it?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And I got it paid one eighty four and I
got a hell of a deal.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
On can't What do you think.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
To see the boat?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
If I buy a boat. I got to buy it
from Little Yacht Sales because he's my boat expert. But
I was just curious what you thought.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I'll look he can. He can take a fee off it.
If you get it for one, I'll let him take
his cut. You know, the two happiest days that you
have being a boat, you sell it?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Why are you getting rid of it?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's right? Well, for what I want to do, it's
it's not practical anymore. It was perfect for for South Florida.
It was perfect for New Hampshire. But I'm a I'm
a marsh fisherman, and uh, it's just you know, it's
just a little I've got it on. It's like the
Catfish Cadillac right now, it's up here on late Ray Hubbard.
(05:53):
I look like an idiot, you know, I'm driving around
this this really fancy boat that's made for the coast,
the you know, the ocean, and it's just not It
just don't look good.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Do you think they look down on you?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't. I don't know. Maybe they they probably think
it's a really fine looking boat.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Do they put their pinky finger out when they're drinking
their Miller High Life as you go by, as their
way of saying, oh, mister fancy pants.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty fancy. It's pretty fancy.
But like I said, you can run fifty miles off
shore and if a storm kicks up, I mean it's
it's great. It's a battle wagon and it's not a
full size off shore boat. So for somebody that's new
to boats, it's a it's a great boat. This boat,
brand new, runs three hundred and twenty five thousand. It's
a it's a twenty twenty that I have babied, I've
(06:41):
had an indoor storage. I've owned a lot of boats.
I grew up around boats. I was driving boats when
I was six years old, putting them on an off
trailer and docking them. What do you do for a living,
So I'm gonna stay at.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Home, Dath?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
What does mama do?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
She works in telecommunications?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, she doesn't worked there. She's like a senior vice president.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
She's pretty high up there. Yeah, yeah, she's pretty high
up there.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She has sugar Mama.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
What did you do before you were stay at home Dad?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I did respiratory medical equipment sales and Katie and sugar Land.
And before that, I had a food truck, which you
actually have me on two segments of your show.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Was it Center Court?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What was it called.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Breakfast Burritos? Anonymous? I had it there at Inversion Coffee House.
Actually I met Avy back in the day before he
was a you know, super big shot, and he hooked
me up with with some coffee equipment when we did
off site gigs. But they're at Inversion. His only deal
with me was just don't sell coffee. And I was like,
(07:47):
all right, you got it.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Man ozvy Katz has done. I am so proud of him.
He has done so incredibly well. And he's done it
by being very good at what he does. It's incredible coffee,
by being Houston focused, by being extraordinarily charitable philanthropy. He
(08:08):
does more for Camp Hope. He says he does as
much for Camp Hope. He's in the Russell Ebara category
of how much he does for Camp Hope. It's incredible
what he has done at Cats Coffee. I mean, I'm
so proud that hold on Ken. I got a boat question.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
For you.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
The Michael Berry Show. If you're a Toto fan, they
are heavily featured in the Yacht Rock Professional. Wayne writes
boat versus yacht tzar. Boat manufacturers have corrupted the term
(08:52):
yacht by listing it as a yacht. The terms center console,
cabin cruiser, also motor yacht. Those are typical flush deck
or multi deck with a very large stateroom. I've been
around boats since I was ten years old, captain many
of them, all the way up to eighty feet. I
don't think of anything less than fifty foot as a yacht,
only because I'm old school. The last boat we had
(09:14):
was a sixty foot sport fish. Most people would consider
it a yacht, but because it was a sport fishing
convertible configuration, I don't ever think of it that way.
We're decent boats, but they were very middle of the
road as far as quality wise. Ramon, do you have
anything to say on this. I'm not a boat expert.
It's like guns or cars, you can get outside of
the problem is we got listeners that have forgotten more
(09:37):
about this than I would ever learn with two years
of intense study. And I'm very well aware of that,
and they love to point out when you get something wrong.
But from my very limited knowledge, my own personal opinion
is unless you have a state room, unless you can
go under and take a nap in the air conditioning
and pee, then it's not a yacht. Well I can
(10:00):
pee on any boat too, mister tough guy. But you
know what I'm saying. You get the point right. Let
me see something here. Well, now I've managed to activate
the entire Bury boat Brigade. Everybody out there with the
boat interest Kent, I have a question for you, Yes,
(10:20):
Sir Kent at Little Yachtsales dot com. So we rented
a boat, Ramon I haven't told you this in Maui
because my boys are never happier than we are. When
we were out on a boat, and I haven't bought
a boat because their expensive is held to maintain like
a horse. But we rented a boat while we're out
there with a captain, and we went out to see
(10:43):
this beautiful reef that is where they did Captain nemo.
And so I sent an email to Kent at Little
Yachtsales dot com and I said, Hey, this is the
boat we've got. It's a thirty five foot three point
fifty realm Boston Whaler. And I know that Boston Whaler
(11:04):
makes it cost a lot more than perhaps would be
absolutely necessary because it's kind of a Rolls Royce brand,
and and anyway, so he's I said, how much does
that boat? How much would this boat be new? And
you know, you're not a boat guy. A million dollar boat?
And I thought, my god, man, do you know what
Like you look at a million dollar house, you go
you got a lot of stuff there. You look at
(11:25):
a million dollar boat, you go, well, well this is
this is a nice boat. It's not Is it just
a boat? It's not. It's not. Tilman's yacht or anything.
But anyway, Kent, what is the status of the boat
business right now? You and I were emailing about how
crazy it got during COVID, and I remember reading I
(11:49):
have a buddy named Lance Parks. He used to run
the Galveston Yacht basin. Do you know Lance?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I do know Lance. I know it's sadly too.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, Well, Lance and I would email a lot during COVID,
and he sent me a Boat Trader article in the
summer of twenty and it said it was the highest
boat sails in American history that month. And then they
broke it the next month. And you said that sales
were up. You wrote it to me in an email
a couple of days ago that sales prices were up.
(12:18):
I may get you wrong fifty percent during that period
of time, So a six hundred thousand dollars boat would
be a nine hundred thousand dollars voat. I may be
wrong on that, so correct me. But where are we
in pricing and volume of boat sails right now?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Back in COVID, it wasn't that they had gone up
any highers, just the demand was very high, so thinks
were selling at retail with very little discount now that's
slowed down some, which was expected. And the biggest problem
is the inflation has caused cost for new boats to
(12:55):
go up quite a bit. So boats have had a
pretty big increase in the life last three years of
about ten percent a year, when normally they're about three
percent a year. But everything has gone up because of inflation.
I mean, you know, an F two to fifty truck
it's one hundred thousand dollars now as well. So, but
the state of the market's very good. We're busy, and
(13:17):
we're fortunate. We're here in Houston where we have a
year round season where it's not cold too terribly often,
and so people can vote year round here, which is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Who's that coming and going sorry, I'm in one of.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
My offices and the guys are actually working here.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh okay, So who is who is buying boats today
that didn't buy boats before? Because I know that like
with vacation properties. They saw this in Colorado, they saw
this in Hawaii during COVID people were buying properties that
never would have because they in the past, they would
have gone to the south of France or they would
(13:57):
have gone off the coast. Degrees and now because they
couldn't travel well, they bought houses in Aspen and Pebble Beach.
And who's buying boats now that didn't buy boats ten
years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers,
people under the age of forty, whereas before it was
been the majority has been baby boomers have been the
majority of the buyers. But now that that market's gotten
better with the younger crowd.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating
or are they first time buyers.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
We see a lot of people that have grown up
boating that eventually do buy their own boat, but some
of them are new boaters. And the one thing about
COVID is we thought we were going to have all
these boats on the market, you know, after COVID, after
everything wore off, But in reality we did not see that.
(14:53):
I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle
and they kept the boat, or they actually got more
involved and bought something else.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come
in and buy a boat that big, because that's not
a to captain a boat like that if you have
no boating experience seems to me like that's a pretty
big undertakings.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It is, but it's like learning anything, once you learn,
and it's not very difficult, and usually we try to
help people get some captain and instruction if they need it,
if they're brand new, for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know, I guess my question would be, I didn't
grow up in a boating culture. My dad had a
boat when I was young, but he had to sell
it when he built our house. It was just a
little boat. He and his brother owned it together. And
bass fishing was big in Orange, So if you went
out on somebody's boat, you go out on a little boat,
little john boat, or just a little bass boat. But
(15:51):
then I came to Houston, and you know, you would
get invited with people to this what we would have
called a yacht because it did have a state room
and it was a you know, thirty forty thirty five
forty foot foot vote. But it strikes me that you
either everybody I knew either grew up around voting or
(16:11):
or never did it at all. And so I guess
I'm interested in who these people are who just decide,
never having been into voting culture, I'm gonna buy a
boat captain some ting wong. Well, something must be right.
You are listening to Michael Berry.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
She looks looking out you.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So this song comes out. This is eighty two eighty three.
It's a good I would have been in six or seven,
eighty two or eighty three. This song comes out. And
I remember hearing this on Casey's EB. Ninety five out
(16:53):
of Bama, the top forty. It was because it was
top forty song. At that point you didn't, you know,
old songs you got to put into you know, a genre.
But at the time it's the top song. It's just
come out that sweets. And I guess because of the subject,
I mean, the sound, the references. I thought this song,
I thought they brought it back as an oldie, like
(17:14):
it felt like something that you know, it was Sinatra,
early Sinatra era. It was a new song that had
an old feel to it because it wasn't over produced.
Maybe this can turn it up, turned up.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We had.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Just like staying lately sure.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Seeing a way to key log.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
He's looking at you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I mean when you quote to e Largo in Casablanca
in a song with that kind of raspy voice and
you've got this over the top cheesy female backers past
purpose should have Jenny Fricky do the background. But another day,
(18:23):
all right, see hint.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yep sair.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
So the voting business today right now, if you were
to tell me where that's going to be a year
from now, obviously twenty twenty we had this absolute boom.
May not see that again in our lifetime, right I
doubt it what you said that you expected at the
end of COVID that those properties, that those boats would
(18:52):
go on the market, and it didn't happen. So people
liked the voting lifestyle. But at some point it strikes
me that you've affected the inventory in production, unless they're
just not making as many boats, because there's It just
strikes me that there's no way that all of a
sudden you had all these new boats bought and then
(19:14):
at some point those boats have to go back out
on the market to compete against the new boats. I'll
give you an example. So Tesla right now has a
real problem on their hands because for the last two
years they haven't sold enough cars and I think they're
making something like fifty more cars than they're selling. So
(19:36):
elon guts the market cuts the price slashes, the price
and tries to put a lot of other people out
of business, which he did. But the problem with that
is the used tesla market was destroyed. So there are
a lot of people that had a five year old
Tesla that can't get anything for that tesla because at
some point the supply and demand have to line up.
(19:58):
And when you when you make when demand goes massive
overnight and the supply doesn't change, at some point, there
has to be a true up, right, yes, So so
do you foresee that happening.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite
a bit of a slowdown in the boat market in
just about every field you know, power sail, small boats,
large boats. But now the demand is starting to come
back because the supply is starting to dwindle some. And
(20:34):
the biggest issue is you know areas that you know, Fortunately,
where we are there's plenty of slips and there's plenty
of places to keep a boat large, you know, yacht
club style marinas, but in other parts of the country,
like Florida, there's huge shortages of slips. So people are
trying to buy a boat. Came and you know some
places fine place to put it, but I think a
(20:54):
year from now the demand will actually be higher. We've
been busy since the election and had the best November
and December we've had in probably five years.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What does that mean? How many boats do you sell
in November December to say that, Well, we.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Usually would do about one hundred and seventy five boats
a year, and we did about twenty in November and
December each combined ten boats a month.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And you normally do how many.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We've done about one hundred and seventy five, but in
twenty twenty four we were down quite a bit, probably
around one hundred, so it was quite a bit of
a drop thirty percent.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Just what's the top month for boat sails? April and
May because it's starting to get warm and people starting
to think about going out on the boat.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
It is, but we've been as busy because of the
season here. Although it's pretty cold right now, you know,
in December it can be as nice as May or
June sometimes, so you know, we we can be as
busy in December.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
As we are in June.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Where do you keep your boats?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
We're well, it got two offices, one at south Shore
Harbor in Leake City and one at Waterford Harbor in Kema,
which they're only a mile apart.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I used to do that boat club, Carefree boat Club,
and they were Yes, I think they were at south
Shore Harbor.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I think they are at south Shore.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Still.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That was kind of a good for a guy like
me that just wanted a basic little boat and take
my kids out for the weekend. I think it was
four hundred bucks a month. That was a great deal
for me.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yes, that wasn't.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I wasn't in the yacht business, although I did go
get my captain's training from the owner there. He was
a show sponsor. But that was I did it for
several years. I thought that was you know, you're in
and out. You didn't if you weren't, you know, because
to buy a boat's a kind of a big commitment.
But to see how much we were going to use it,
I thought that was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
I think those those clubs, care Free and Freedom both
we are both great. They introduce a lot of people
into the market, and of course a lot of those
people do eventually want to buy something and own it.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Well, I'm lazy keeping down in the water. If I
if I if I know that at the end of
a day out with my kids, I've got to come
back and clean the boat. That I think about that
the whole It kind of takes a little bit of
the of the fun off for me. So are all
of those marinas booked up right now?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
No, they're not.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
There's vacancies. And I can tell you there's no lazier
boater than me.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I've got to you just call a.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Fellow and have him come clean the boat afterwards, just
write a check and be happy and go home.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
So we we, uh, we've leased a house over the
years at Pirates, and so we would. I would always
lease a boat from from Lance Parks and then just
go over to Waterman's uh Marina and eat and come back,
just to have somewhere to go, right. It's like the
guys on the motorcycle or the airplane's going somewhere to go,
and you they they haven't had a slip available in
(24:06):
I bet you ten years. It's not a big marina.
But that was kind of my you know, my barometer
of there's not a lot of space for boats. Kent,
thank you, buddy, that Kent. Little Licht Sales dot Com.
Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut enjoyed Bizaar
(24:27):
of Talk Radio.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
To Little River, remember this and when we have a
custom that they cut for us. Oh here here we
turned up.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Turn up.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Everybody and you' listening to the Michael Berry Show and reminiscy.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Yeah, they're Australian. They surprised us with that. Were you
on the show yet? I think that was just me
and Chad Backer. You know you were because we had
just gone on in Nashville when they live in Nashville.
Ken Paxton, along with the state Republican Party, has launched
a tour across the state to go into the state
(25:28):
districts for the state representatives who want Democrat committee chairman.
We've got a battle for who's going to be the
Speaker of the House. Well, Drunk Dad was driven from
office after they spent millions. The lobbyists spent millions. Drunk
daid had fought against everything we want as the base
(25:52):
and he put Democrats in committee chairmanships. So drunk Date
is out. After almost losing his seat, they had to
have Democrats come over over a thousand Democrats to vote
in the Republican primary for the first time ever to
help him win by a couple hundred votes. He lost
two of the three counties that make up that State
(26:13):
Rep district. I know I'm from that county. I'm from
Orange and he's Jefferson County and there's Jasper County. So
Ken Paxton's going out and saying to voters, hey, guys,
the choice of the speaker. Remember, the Texas State House
only meets every other year. It's a biennial session every
two years. So immediately after the election, you begin in
(26:38):
the spring a legislative session, and that's one hundred and
fifty days. That's when all the bills will be written.
And the choice of who the speaker is is everything,
because that's who appoints the committee chairman. That's who puts
things on calendars, whether they're ever voted on it or not.
Appropriations everything, sun setting bills, all of it. And so
(27:03):
if you get Dustin Burrows in there, who was drunk
Daid's number two, I mean, you would think the fact
that drunk Dade had to step down with all this
money and was defeated in the first round of the
primary in his own district by a candidate with no money,
you would think Donald Trump got involved to defeat a
(27:24):
Republican Speaker of the House in Texas. Now, how bad
do you think he had to be for the President
of the United States to get involved in his state
rep race in Southeast Texas. That's how bad he is.
Mind you, our whole state held hostage by the lobbyist
in Austin who had this guy, and they want some
Democrats to be committee chairman, so get They don't want
(27:48):
your agenda to be passed, so they control some of
the Republicans. So he got one hundred and fifty members
who meet one hundred and fifty days every other year. Well,
if we don't get our speaker, who the majority of
the base wants, then you're gonna have Dustin Burroughs, his
planet's attorney out of Lubbock, whose own district is pissed
(28:11):
at him right now. You're gonna end up with him,
and he's gonna put Democrat party chairman, I mean Democrat
committee chairman. And we know this is going to happen.
So you got this guy, David Cook, and he's not perfect.
Let's be clear on that. He's not perfect, but he's
a much better choice. So you got drunk Dad's minion,
Dustin Burroughs so Ken Paxton is traveling the state with
(28:35):
a state party chairman and a lot of the grassroots
folks that help win elections because he's Republican state reps.
You got a guy named Jered Patterson out of Frisco, Texas.
He's a Republican, and he says that he is supporting
Dustin Burroughs, which is the mini me for drunk Dad,
(28:59):
Justin Burroughs. Dustin Burroughs is the poor man's drunk Day.
And he says he's supporting Chairman Boroughs because he believes
that every single member of the House is an elected
representative of the people and that their voice deserves to
be heard. Do you see what he's saying. He's saying,
(29:20):
we're going to team up with the Democrats to get
the majority of the votes. Remember, we've got eighty eight
Republicans and sixty two Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Because you worked hard to send Republicans to the House
and you beat the Democrats, you got seventy six or more.
He got eighty eight. Sixty two of the eighty eight
(29:44):
support David Cook, but twenty six are bought and paid
for out of Austin and they go, Hey, if we
take our twenty six and put it with the sixty
two Democrats, we'll have the majority. Now, we'll only have
fewer than a third of the Republicans, so we won't
have the majority of Republicans, but we'll take us few Republicans,
(30:08):
team up with the other side that can't get to
fifty percent, and between the two of us, we'll share
power with the Democrats. As Republicans are doing this, this
is not what their base wants, and he's well, we
think the Democrats should have some choice in the speaker too.
That's not how it worked in Congress when the Democrats.
(30:30):
Democrats had controlled, Nancy Pelosi was the speaker and they
jammed things down our throat. In the state of Texas,
when Democrats controlled, they controlled. We've got Republicans in control,
and then this is happening, the story from nbc DFW.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Two factions within the Republican Party have been fighting for
power over the last year, and a key battle will
be over who becomes this Speaker of the House. Inside
the building, it's arguably the third most powerful position in
the state. Recently, he's sat atop a Republican led but
bipartisan coalition with Democrats. That's something this group in Terren
(31:14):
County Monday aims to change.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Until the Texas House is fixed, everything else is a
band aid.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Local and state parties are organizing bus tours down to
Austin next week to try to pressure Republican House members
to back Mansfield Lawmaker David Cook as Speaker of the House.
He's the Republican caucus's choice, and has pledged to scrap
the bipartisan coalition.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
From the Speaker from the lobby.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
In a rare public appearance since he defeated an impeachment attempt.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is putting his shoulder into the effort.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Whatever they do is going to be public, and it's
going to be transparent, and the voters then will ultimately
decide what happens, not me.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
The other faction is supporting Lubbick Republican Dustin Burroughs, arguing
Democratic chairs should be put up to a vote in
the one hundred and fifty member Chamber.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Chairman Burroughs believes that every single member of the House
is an elected representative the people and that their voice
deserves to be heard.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
Many of them supported incumbent Speaker Dade Feelin, who chose
not to seek the position again after a bruising campaign season.
They see themselves as defending the state constitution and a
Texas House that's a check on other statewide powers across Texas.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Our founders designed our systems to be independent from each
other the chambers, so if one chamber controls the other,
that's not the way it was intended to work.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
So that vote for speaker happens next Tuesday, the first
day of the legislative session.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Down in Austin. You wonder why we win elections but
lose policy, because we've got people who claim to be
Republicans when they come home to their district. This happens
in Congress, it happens in the House representatives. Oh, they
show up and they love the Lord and Amica are
cunning our veterans and send me back. And then they
(33:04):
get up there and they team up with the Democrats
and get drunk with a lobbyists and screw you over.
That's paraphrasing of Molly Ivans quote Tramon
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